Sweet Realistic Medieval Combat (Mount and Blade)

[edyzmedieval]

Holy cow!

This rocks...Can't wait to play it!

[Sasaki Kojiro]

The samurai armor and weapons can be found in hidden chests in various cities

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

tihr and jelkala, I don't know about the rest of it

Also, you can defend your castles now.

[Major Robert Dump]

You may have already known this, but something interesting I found out about riding:

-if you leap while mounted (the same as normal leap, except your horse jumps) you lance stays couched. Since you dont lose much speed when you leap, and with riding 3 and up you can clear most rivers in a mounted leap (even jump over enemy heads) this essentially means when your lance is couched you can jump a river/rock/shrub and nail a guy who thought he was safely on the other side. Its actually quite funny.

Keep in mind though, that leaping down inclines does major damage to your horse, so keep the leaps on relatively level ground. Leap is also great for breaking out of mobs and if you are in a charger or heavy horse, its great for breaking mobs off of allies who get surrounded.

--still havent beat the last days mod as orcs, the freaking rohan just regained all strength. On a positive note, all my seargents are strong enough that versus 30+ armies of bandits, peasants or lower tier enemies I simply use the "seargents charge" command and the four of us wipe them all up, it gets mad xp for the seargents.

--also, the special orc sword you buy with influence from the mordor boss adds +1 to powerstrike and has a range of 130, speed of I think 90, and does 39 damage. Not a bad little tool, if you are wearing it when you level up make sure and take it off before adding a point to power strike so you can then go past your cap by putting the sword back on.

not sure what the other special items do, I cant afford any yet as I've used all my influence dropping capture missions

[edyzmedieval]

The samurai armor and weapons can be found in hidden chests in various cities

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

tihr and jelkala, I don't know about the rest of it

Also, you can defend your castles now.

Where eexactly? I couldn't find any chest in Tihr.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Where eexactly? I couldn't find any chest in Tihr.

Under the left hand bridge. There's a chest in rivacheg too but you have to climb the battlements and jump around the rooftops to get it. Check the taleworlds forums.

I got the armor but it looked pretty silly with the medieval theme so I put it back.

[Crazed Rabbit]

A new soundpack has just been released by the sound guy:
Taleworlds Thread: http://forums.taleworlds.net/index.p...c,10412.0.html

DL Link at M&B repository: http://www.mbrepository.com/modules/...oads/index.php

EDIT: Sound pack v1.0 available here for download:

http://www.mbrepository.com/modules/...oads/index.php

The sound pack includes:

-New Death sounds (the current ones in MB are hard to distinguish from pain sounds)
-New pain sounds (the current ones are very annoying after a while so i made new ones)
-New Warcries (some are good but some Ive replaced them)
-New Grunts (Some new weapon swings)
-New Taunts (Redid the taunts, got rid of you will pay and damn you)

-Eventually I'll redo the faction party voices but that will be after im done with the battle sounds
-Eventually there will be some new victory sounds to replace the bad ones.

Crazed Rabbit

[edyzmedieval]

Thanks Sasaki.

@Crazed Rabbit

Thanks for telling me about the new sound pack, but for the moment, I can't ehar any sounds with the 0.750.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Hmm, soundpack gets rid of the pre battle speech? I liked those, I'll get the old one back. I have to turn off voice variation to get the game running without lag anyway.

Edit, nevermind, apparently it's storymod that gets rid of those speeches.

[Major Robert Dump]

Erm, so has anyone tried to run a saved game after the update? ATM I'm playing it safe and I'm gonna finish my last days campaign before I update, unless one of you fine chaps can vouche for the compatability

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Erm, so has anyone tried to run a saved game after the update? ATM I'm playing it safe and I'm gonna finish my last days campaign before I update, unless one of you fine chaps can vouche for the compatability

I don't know, I just installed in in a different directory. I doubt any mods will work with the new version.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

YES!!

Castle defense ~:D



I took Radoghir castle (losing most of my army ). Then I got a 24 man strong group of Vaegir deserters to follow me back to the castle and "Rested for the night". In the morning I got the "you are under attack message" and got to defend the castle. Quite fun, actually pretty tricky since I only had 1 or 2 allies per round. That was odd. I think I'll fill it up with Vaegir archers and then try and lure a Swadian war party...

[edyzmedieval]

I found the strange stuff. It looks so weird on me...
I need some charisma points soon, so I can take some leadership points. I can only have 31 guys in my party, and I have 30 already.

23 Knights.
Useful on normal battles. useless for assaulting castles.

@Sasaki

What the hell are you wearing on you?

@Major Robert

It's save game compatible. I tried it. Works very well for me.
I would have gotten mad to start again a 21lvl game!!!

[Kraxis]

@Sasaki

What the hell are you wearing on you?

@Major Robert

It's save game compatible. I tried it. Works very well for me.
I would have gotten mad to start again a 21lvl game!!!

It looks like he is wearing Plate and a Guard Helmet. Ca. the second best set of armour around (next up would be Black and Black, or Black and Great).

I like to restart my games. Generally I manage to get to the 'boring' part where I can beat everyone when the next update has come. Thus I get an incentive to restart.

[edyzmedieval]

I don't like restarting. I am just waiting for the part to assault the castles, even Swadian ones.

I have a black armour, but I can't find the Black Great Helmet(Cross Helmet but black). Any idea?

[Crazed Rabbit]

Erm, so has anyone tried to run a saved game after the update? ATM I'm playing it safe and I'm gonna finish my last days campaign before I update, unless one of you fine chaps can vouche for the compatability

Savegames work, but I don't thnk TLD has been updated for .75 yet, and I don't think the .731 version would work.

A note on Castle sieges: For defense, you only get to use the troops you have in your party, not the ones stationed in your castle.

And check out the NPC horde mod if you have any interesting ideas for characters:
http://forums.taleworlds.net/index.p...c,10410.0.html

Crazed Rabbit

[edyzmedieval]

Just downloaded that Voice pack. I hope it's good.

Maybe in teh summer I can start modding M&B.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Wow, castles are insanely powerful. I just defended Radoghir against a 145 man Swadian war party with my 25 man party (mostly archers, with 5 knights). I only lost 1 man, and that was to a lucky crossbow shot. Archers are definetly better than crossbowmen, those guys didn't even have a chance to load.

6,000 experience shared among party, 1,000 gold in loot, and 20 knights I freed from among the war party's prisoners, had to let the other 200 prisoners go.

The battle was a lot of fun but much too easy. The problem is the attackers get the same number of troops as the defenders. Being outnumber 2 or 3 to 1 would be cool.

[Kraxis]

There is a mod that increases battlesize to 200. If you have a strong computer it might be worth looking into for sieges.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

There is a mod that increases battlesize to 200. If you have a strong computer it might be worth looking into for sieges.

That's more like it...






They still came in two waves, but I only had the slider set to 160. They had 90 I had 30 so I figured they would all show up but I guess not. I'll try setting it higher. Ran just fine although they sounds cut out most of the time. I could always lower the texture detail.

[edyzmedieval]

What's the upgrade for Vaegir Infantry?

I only have 1, the rest are Knights(23), 1 Swadian Knight and 2 Caravan Masters. Now the assault of Radoghir castle is useless, because I will lose many men.

Oh, and another one. What's the next rank after Sergeant in Arms(I think)(I was before a Knight in Arms)???

[R'as al Ghul]

What's the upgrade for Vaegir Infantry?

I only have 1, the rest are Knights(23), 1 Swadian Knight and 2 Caravan Masters. Now the assault of Radoghir castle is useless, because I will lose many men.

Oh, and another one. What's the next rank after Sergeant in Arms(I think)(I was before a Knight in Arms)???

Vaegir Infantry is the highest infantry type.
They evolve from vaegir veteran.
Footmen turn into veterans or skirmishers.
footmen>veteran>infantry
footmen>Skirmishers>Archer>Marksmen
Veterans turn into horsemen or infantry.
footmen>veteran>horsemen>knight

Iirc.
Marksmen are the troop of choice when it comes to castle assault.

[Husar]

Vaegir Infantry can be upgraded to Vaegir Guards...

[edyzmedieval]

I finally have some more guys in my party, after I upgraded to 4 at Leadership.I now have:

-Viking(me)
-Marnid
-Borcha
-22 Vaegir Knights
-4 Vaegir Horseman
-4 Vaegir Footmen
-3 Vaegir Infantry
-1 Vaegir Guard


What about you?

@R'as GHul

Thanks for the tips. I'm looking for shield guys.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I finally have some more guys in my party, after I upgraded to 4 at Leadership.I now have:

-Viking(me)
-Marnid
-Borcha
-22 Vaegir Knights
-4 Vaegir Horseman
-4 Vaegir Footmen
-3 Vaegir Infantry
-1 Vaegir Guard


What about you?

[edyzmedieval]

Tell me Sasaki, how many hours have you spent on playing M&B?

Check your PM's also.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

That amount of troops is quite easy to get actually. I lured over a bench of steppe bandit parties to Culmarr castle, and defended it with only 10 men. After wards I take 35 of there prisoners and put them in my party

Also I gave borcha and marnid a bunch of training skill. So after resting I get the message "2600 experience gained by party". The peasants become skirmishers pretty quickly, and a couple castle defenses turn them into archers/crossbowmen. The fighter women are all trained up from peasant women, haven't even used them in battle.



.751 has been released, bugfixes.

[edyzmedieval]

Nice. I hope the new one will be compatible with the old saves...

Tell me Sasaki, your level and leadership points.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Nice. I hope the new one will be compatible with the old saves...

Tell me Sasaki, your level and leadership points.

It should be.

Around level 23 with 4 (5?) points in leadership. Whichever one gives you a party size of 45. Bow skill is 210 or something, but I only use it during castle battles. I go with lance and balanced sword of war during regular battles. Also a morningstar just because I have a slot, I use it when I need to block with the shield. Once in a while I can get a crossbowman with it, usually I have to knock them out with my charger though.

[Justiciar]

Good game.. not much to do though. Once you've played it for a while you've pretty much done everything. The quests that nobles give you are just randomly selected from a number of simple fetch/kill scenarios. Still.. the game was made for the combat, and it doesn't dissapoint there.

I don't know if it has been said yet, but the Storymod makes things a bit more interesting, adds a few pretty items, a new nation, more troops to hire, a deeper storyline, and makes the map look less half-arsed.

[Major Robert Dump]

Remember, you get one more in your army per charisma point. So every three char points you are actually getting 8 men and one slot.

FYI, in the Last Days Mod the Tome you can buy from the boss at Isengard adds 2 to charisma, you carry it in your inventory, you dont have to equip it. If anyone has any of the other items you purchase with influence could you please post it here?

AAAARG! The Last Days mod is lkilling me. I'm now level 31. I have 5 in leadership, for an army of 53 soldiers. I have 4 heroes, I could have more, because when you get to a certain level you can start recruiting the castle kings for 150 influence, they recruit at 18 with moderate melee and riding skills, good additions since you can put them on a heavy warhorse and eck them out to be killers.

My problem is this:

The only human team left is Rohan. Rohan keeps losing big battles and diminishing, it says they are weakened. 2 Days later Rohan recovers her streenght. Is this a bug? I dont think so, I havent found anything about it online, I think what is happening is a rohan Patrol is taking out one of my allies armies that has 200+ prisoners, and adding those prisoners to his army to become a new powerful host. There are a lot of my allies running around with 40 men armies toting 200 prisoners LOL. So now I'm determined to ALWAYS capture slaves (i can only hold 10) so my allies armies dont get them when I assist him in battle. Then I drop the slaves immediately after the fight if I dont feel like running them back to the brigand base, and usually i dont. They arent like rescued prisoners, they dont stay on the map they vanish. ITs only 10 at a time, but this is something I should have been doing all along.

I suppose early in the game you WANT these prisoners to be freed and recruited by your enemy so you can fight them again and get xp and loot, but when its late game like this and your itching to tangle with Isengard, and you spend 30 minutes after 30 minutes on 53 vs 200 battles, it gets really old to think you are gaining footing only to see "Rohan has regainer her strength"
ITs enough to make me want to start drinking. When I change sides and play the human campaign I'm definitely gonna import a level 20